This nocturnal bird has a long tail and mottled plumage. It stays still on a branch by day and catches flying insects at night.
Its plumage is mottled brown, black, and gray, and its tail is long.
It is nocturnal and stays motionless on a tree branch by day. At night, it catches insects in flight.
At one nest found in Iguazú National Park, Argentina, in 2020, a single spotted white egg lay in a depression left by a broken branch. Two adults took turns incubating it.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.